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Raccoon Latrine by Ellen Ferguson

Raccoon Latrine by Ellen Ferguson

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“I haven’t had this much fun reading poetry since Richard Brautigan.”

–Carol Vinzant, author of Don’t Be Like Trump

 

“Grecian urns and Uber; Seinfeld, Shakespeare, Meadow Soprano; Tennessee Williams, hashtag Keats, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus:  these poems are situated, at once peculiar and particular, a world just off its axis — and ambivalent about righting the ship.  There’s a joy in the comings and goings, in the hodgepodge of it all, turns of phrase and perspective steering us this way then that with a gentle joy in the things of this life — language, perhaps, above all. Literary, beautiful, funny, surprising — I hear John Berryman — they are not a universal reckoning but proffer a perspective, this taking in of so much, of it all,  getting knocked about with a smile that hints at a melancholy that never comes.”

–Daniel Coffeen, PhD. Author of Reading the Way of Things: Towards a New Technology of Making Sense

 

 

 

 

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Raccoon Latrine

by Ellen Ferguson

author photo by:  Adrianne Mathiowetz

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Raccoon Latrine invites readers to sit outside for a while, outside themselves, outside their back steps, outside all the other things. These poems suggest there’s somewhere else to go, somewhere in nature. The more intrepid short poems lightly massage the memories that rise in the evening while others, afraid to go out at night, watch the raccoons like television as they look for a place on the porch to relax. Sometimes experiencing nature fully is as simple as turning the page, whether you are a foster beagle, a character on the Sopranos, or anyone else you will find hanging out on the porch, or just under it.

Ellen Ferguson’s poetry chapbook Small Fiasco was published by Finishing Line Press. She wrote the “Diversity in the News” column for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. She is the author of the book Can Creativity Be Taught? Her nonfiction has been published in Kugelmass, the Journal of Literary Humor. She has been a 30/30 poet for Tupelo Press three times, each time publishing 30 poems in a month. She worked for The New Yorker Magazine and SPY before she started teaching English and couldn’t stop. She is a recipient of the University of Chicago Outstanding Educator Award.  Her co-authored screenplay “Demo Queen” was a semi-finalist in humor in the Screenplay Festival.

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